Newspaper Endorsements [Updated All Day if Necessary]

The Capital Times has endorsed Barack Obama by saying voters should reject John McCain:

As 2000's Wisconsin Republican primary between Arizona Sen. John McCain and Texas Gov. George W. Bush approached, we urged voters to cast ballots for McCain. We did not agree with McCain, especially on questions of military adventurism abroad. But in his commitment to bipartisan reform initiatives -- often advanced with Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold ndsh as well as his relative moderation on some social issues, we recognized evidences of a return to the rational Republicanism of old.

In 2000, McCain campaigned as a refreshing alternative to the broken politics of both major parties. Had he won the nomination and the presidency, America might have taken a different course.

But McCain lost. And, in defeat, he surrendered to the forces he once battled. During the first years of George W. Bush's dangerous presidency, McCain retained something of himself. He broke with the president on spending issues, stem cell research and climate change. And we celebrated his dissents. But slowly, the senator began to compromise not merely with Bush and the most extreme elements of the Republican Party but with his own best instincts.

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